Territorial Strategic Planning Department

Head of Department: Arthur Batchaev, Ph.D.   Contacts: Tel. (812) 316-26-72, artur@leontief.ru

Employees of the Department: Voronkova Rimma Gerasimova Olga Zhunda Nikolay, Ph.D. Knor Victoria Pribyshin Taras Ryabkova Julia

Major activity areas

The Territorial Strategic Planning Department is an essential part of the Leontief Centre. The main activity of the department is to develop strategic planning documents alongside with other program and planning documents on socio-economic development of federal districts, federal subjects, municipalities, economic complexes and sectors of the Russian Federation, as well as updating these documents. In addition, the department is engaged in research, scientific and project development in the following areas:

• Development and implementation of the State regional development policy;
• Demographic, socio-economic, and spatial development analysis of federal districts, federal subjects of the Russian Federation, municipalities, economic complexes and sectors;
• Making forecasts of socio-economic development of federal subjects of the Russian Federation, municipalities, economic complexes and sectors;
• Formation and development of urban agglomerations and urbanized territories;
• Attraction and use of investments, implementation of investment projects and evaluation of their effectiveness, including cultural heritage preservation projects;
• Fiscal policy at the regional and municipal levels, intergovernmental fiscal relations;
• Improving the management of socio-economic development of federal subjects and municipalities of the Russian Federation.

Main projects

• [2022 - 2023]
• [2021 - 2022] Provision of consulting services for the final assessment of the results and effectiveness of the implementation of the project "Preservation and use of cultural heritage in Russia"
• [2021 - 2022] Development of the Strategy for Social and Economic Development of the Lipetsk Region until 2030
• [2021 - 2021] Provision of a range of services for the development of components of the educational program, providing for the integrated development of export competencies of regional management teams - a template for a regional program for the development of exports of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation and a business card template for a constituent entity of the Russian Federation
• [2019 - 2020] Advisory Services to Assess Results and Effectiveness of the Implementation of the Project “St. Petersburg Economic Development”
• [2019 - 2020] Development of the Long-Term Strategy for Socio-Economic Development of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• [2019 - 2019] Major Factors, Challenges and Prospects for Spatial and Socio-Economic Development of Russia’s Large Cities at the Present Stage
• [2016 - 2017] Development of Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of Krasnodar Region on the Long-Term Period
• [2016 - 2017] Analysis and Monitoring of Division System of Expenditure Responsibilities between Levels of Budgetary System for its Financial Security and Execution Efficiency
• [2016 - 2017] Expert Support in Implementation of Strategic Development Directions of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania until 2030
• [2013 - 2015] Development of the Socio-Economic Strategy for the Tatarstan Republic on the period up to 2030
• [2014 - 2014] Analysis of the Present Practice of the Strategic Planning on the Regional and Municipal Levels, Synchronisation of these Processes in Order to Implement the Strategic Planning Documents’ Synchronisation Instruments for the Leningrad Region on the Regional Level with the Strategic Planning Documents of Municipal Districts
• [2011 - 2011] Strategies for Socio-Economic Development of Syktyvkar Municipality till 2025 and Complex Programme for Socio-Economic Development of Syktyvkar Municipality
• [2009 - 2009] Preparation of evidence-based recommendations for the formation of core activities in order to ensure sustainable development of Saint Petersburg during the global financial crisis
• [2004 - 2004] Renewal of Strategic Plan for St. Petersburg
• [2003 - 2003] Definition of Social and Economic Premises of St. Petersburg Urban Planning Development for Long-Term Period
• [2003 - 2003] Forecast of St. Petersburg Social and Economic Development for Long-Term Period